brooch | (noun) a decorative pin worn by women | Synonyms: breastpin, broach |
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brood | (noun) the young of an animal cared for at one time | - |
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brooder | (noun) apparatus consisting of a box designed to maintain a constant temperature by the use of a thermostat; used for chicks or premature infants | Synonyms: incubator |
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brooding | (noun) persistent morbid meditation on a problem | Synonyms: pensiveness |
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(noun) sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body | Synonyms: incubation |
broodmare | (noun) a female horse used for breeding | Synonyms: stud mare |
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broody | (noun) a domestic hen ready to brood | Synonyms: brood hen, broody hen, setting hen, sitter |
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brook | (noun) a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river) | Synonyms: creek |
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brooklet | (noun) a small brook | - |
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brooklime | (noun) plant of western North America and northeastern Asia having prostrate stems with dense racemes of pale violet to lilac flowers | Synonyms: American brooklime, Veronica americana |
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(noun) European plant having low-lying stems with blue flowers; sparsely naturalized in North America | Synonyms: European brooklime, Veronica beccabunga |
brookweed | (noun) water pimpernel of Europe to China | Synonyms: Samolus valerandii |
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(noun) American water pimpernel | Synonyms: Samolus floribundus, Samolus parviflorus |
broom | (noun) a cleaning implement for sweeping; bundle of straws or twigs attached to a long handle | - |
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(noun) any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers | - |
(noun) common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the Northern Hemisphere | Synonyms: Calluna vulgaris, heather, ling, Scots heather |
broomcorn | (noun) tall grasses grown for the elongated stiff-branched panicle used for brooms and brushes | Synonyms: Sorghum vulgare technicum |
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broomstick | (noun) the handle of a broom | Synonyms: broom handle |
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broomweed | (noun) annual of southwestern United States having rigid woody branches with sticky foliage and yellow flowers | Synonyms: broom-weed, Gutierrezia texana |
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